Richard Gray & Owen Robinson 
A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the American South [PDF ebook] 

Acknowledgments x
Notes on Contributors xii
List of Plates xviii
PART I Introduction 1
1 Writing Southern Cultures 3
Richard Gray
PART II Themes and Issues 27
2 The First Southerners: Jamestown’s Colonists as Exemplary Figures 29
Mary C. Fuller
3 Slave Narratives 43
Jerry Phillips
4 Plantation Fiction 58
John M. Grammer
5 The Slavery Debate 76
Susan-Mary Grant
6 Southern Writers and the Civil War 93
Susan-Mary Grant
7 Visualizing the Poor White 110
Stuart Kidd
8 Southern Appalachia 130
Linda Tate
9 The Southern Literary Renaissance 148
Robert H. Brinkmeyer, Jr.
10 The Native-American South 166
Mick Gidley and Ben Gidley
11 Southern Music 185
John White
12 Country Music 203
Barbara Ching
13 The Civil Rights Debate 221
Richard H. King
14 Southern Religion(s) 238
Charles Reagan Wilson
15 African-American Fiction and Poetry 255
R. J. Ellis
16 Southern Drama 280
Mark Zelinsky and Amy Cuomo
17 Sports in the South 297
Diane Roberts
18 The South Through Other Eyes 317
Helen Taylor
19 The South in Popular Culture 335
Allison Graham
PART III Individuals and Movements 353
20 Edgar Allan Poe 355
Henry Claridge
21 Southwestern Humor 370
John M. Grammer
22 Mark Twain 388
Peter Stoneley
23 Ellen Glasgow 403
Julius Rowan Raper
24 Fugitives and Agrarians 420
Andrew Hook
25 William Faulkner 436
Richard Godden
26 Literature of the African-American Great Migration 454
Kate Fullbrook
27 Zora Neale Hurston 472
Will Brantley
28 Flannery O’Connor 486
Susan Castillo
29 Eudora Welty 502
Jan Nordby Gretlund
30 Oral Culture and Southern Fiction 518
Jill Terry
31 Recent and Contemporary Women Writers in the South 536
Sharon Monteith
32 The South in Contemporary African-American Fiction 552
A. Robert Lee
33 Writing in the South Now 571
Matthew Guinn
PART IV Afterword 589
34 Searching for Southern Identity 591
James C. Cobb
Index 608

Richard Gray is Professor in the Department of Literature at
the University of Essex. His books include The Literature of
Memory: Modern Writers of the American South, Writing the South:
Ideas of an American Region (which won the C. Hugh Holman Award
from the Society for the Study of Southern Literature), American
Poetry of the Twentieth Century, The Life of William Faulkner: A
Critical Biography, Southern Aberrations: Writers of the American
South and the Problems of Regionalism, and A History
of American Literature. He is also editor of a number of
collections and anthologies, and a regular reviewer for various
newspapers and journals, including the Times Literary
Supplement and the Literary Review. He is the first
specialist in American literature to be elected a Fellow of the
British Academy.
Owen Robinson is Lecturer in American Literature at the
University of Essex. He is the author of several articles on the
novels of William Faulkner, and is editing A Routledge Guide to
Light in August. He is currently working on writing centred on
New Orleans, and on reader-writer relations in African American
literature.